05 July 2003

The Darkness--Growing on Me. Best rock band since Thin Lizzy. So says R. Gervais. Ricky reads a survey--Mancunians take more sick days than anyone else in the UK. Karl takes a shot at the Liverpudlians. Something about thieving? How many computers are gonna go missing? ...so says the K-Man. Got a girl at your flat on a friday night? Karl says, "Stick the telly on" Sexy songs are rubbish. "Please welcome to the stage, RESTLESS DIESEL!" They're playing tonite locally...won't see them opening for U2 at Wembley though. Back from a song....Karl has another go at Steve about being sick at his parents' house in Bristol with tonsilitis. Ricky--The piss taken! we're like three blokes in a pub! Karl....London is making him ill, he's not sleeping. "If I dropped down dead tonight, I'd love it" Steve--"Rick don't take this the wrong way, he's (Gary Kemp) aged better than you" and then--"what old times did you have with Gary Kemp?" Karl then has an opening about Steve's looks and he takes it. Of course, to Ricky's amusement. Steve comments about MTV ads which are absolutely drivel. 40-somethings trying to make adverts that are cool. "Isabella's 17, she has a tattoo, she's wild she's crazy....etc. she doesn't smoke cigarettes!" Rubbish. Ricky mimicing mum: "I'd rather she smoked! She now has a spider's web on her face for the rest of her life!" There used to be an advert apparently (Charlie says?) where a cat gave kids advice, so there's talk about that. Karl recalls ("maybe these adverts GIVE you ideas") when he and his mates faked an abduction in Wales, after seeing one of the adverts, and of course the mom went mental thinking her son was gone. "She was maybe screaming a little bit an' that" Another Karl childhood story .... on the beach. Mum gave Karl a balloon. But then the problem--loads of kids also had balloons. Bin that idea. Steve then recalls a balloon story. In Bristol on New Year's eve, he had a balloon, and the girls came up to him ("hey yeah, maybe a little new year's kiss"), and said, "we've arranged to meet BACK at you, cause we can see you from anywhere." Of course Steve got no party invite, and watched them go off in a cab. An emailer gives his pre-emptive Rockbusters answers before the cryptic clues are even given. Brilliant. Taking the radio show on the road dies a quick death. What was that band playing tonight? We could have them on. Someone from Big Brother 2... Steve reads this week's prizes now. And now Rockbusters--after a bit of Blur. They decide to do Educating Ricky instead of Rockbusters--"OOOHHH, you've told me! Educating Ricky" is the jingle. Sounds familiar. Same people do it. Mount Everest. There's a littering/rubbish problem up there. Whoever is in charge of the mountain is not happy. And do you know how they named it? When you get to the top you need to HAVE A REST....EV-E-REST. But that wasn't even the educating Ricky part. Karl read about cryogenics recently and they discuss it. Walt Disney apparently is cryogenically frozen, e.g. Karl wonders what would become of him and Suzanne if he was suspended for 40 years. Would he have to stay with Suzanne--cause she'd be 70! It's not fair is it? "They're never gonna find a cure for what ails you" says Steve.